Another View: Pope Francis vs. Rush Limbaugh

12:15 AM,
Dec. 8, 2013

Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald/MCT)

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Leonard Pitts Jr.

Specifically, I like the idea that if I write a better book, have a better idea, build a better mousetrap, I will be rewarded accordingly. A system where everyone gets the same reward regardless of quality or quantity of work is inconsistent with excellence and innovation, as the mediocrity and inefficiency that beset the Soviet Union readily proves.

The woman who is successful under capitalism gets to eat steak and lobster whenever she wants. That's never bothered me. What does bother me is the notion that the unsuccessful man who lacks that woman's talent, resources, ...